Gaurav is a Senior Designer and World Builder at E-Line Media, working on Never Alone 2.
In his previous role as Creative Director for External Studios at Penumbra, Gaurav Mathur synthesized clinical input with art and design direction for external studio partners building Virtual Reality therapies. He was the founding Art Director for Penumbra's internal REAL System studio and guided development of Happy Valley, Penumbra's stroke rehabilitation therapy game and first released title.
He has worked on titles including the critically acclaimed Grim Fandango and Psychonauts, the bestseller Star Wars: Rogue Squadron, and the beloved Skylanders console games. Gaurav launched gamedevmap -- a curated living map and catalog of game development around the world -- in 2005. He has been a judge and a mentor with the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) for over a decade, and served on the Excellence in Visual Art Jury for the Independent Games Festival in 2022.
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